Entrepreneurship Coaches Westminster MD

Entrepreneurship coaches provide business coaching services and start-up business advice to entrepreneurs. Their services include marketing plans, personal brand development, leadership style examination, and business plans. Read on to learn more and to find expert entrepreneurship coaches in Westminster, MD.

Intuition: The Entrepreneur's Secret Weapon

By Claudette Rowley

"The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, and the solution comes to you, and you don't know how or why." - Albert Einstein

I remember the first time a boss asked me, "What's your gut feeling?" Before I was a coach, I was a social worker, at the time employed by the state of Idaho in the child protective services department. This was the first time someone had asked me to include my "gut" or intuition in my decision making process. As I began to use my intuition, I noticed that it was usually dead-on right. My intuition allowed me to know things that my rational mind couldn't.

As an entrepreneur, your intuition is your secret weapon. Entrepreneurship requires risk taking, not to mention frequent forays into the unruly jungle of the unknown. Not knowing where your next paycheck is coming from, putting your ideas out into world, and facing "make it or break it" decisions on a regular basis are all situations entrepreneurs face. Developing your intuition is critical to your entrepreneurial success. Sometimes it's all you've got.

What is intuition?

Intuition is simply knowing something without knowing exactly how you know it. In other words, intuition is a form of inner guidance. Connect back to a time that you had a "gut feeling" about something - the job that you knew you shouldn't take, even though it looked good on the surface, or a relationship that just felt right for you. That's your intuition talking to you.

When I talk about intuition, clients often ask, "How do I tell the difference between my intuition and the other voices in my head?" Often the "other voices" are the loud-mouthed opinions of the inner critic. For those of you who aren't familiar with the term "inner critic", it's the voice that says "What a stupid idea. No one is going to take you seriously." Or "You just made the biggest fool of yourself. Now everyone will know that you are a fraud." In contrast, intuition feels like a gentle internal nudge. It doesn't feel bad because it's not based in fear or judgment.

How do I hone my intuition?

Listen, practice and trust. Because intuition is largely intangible - it can't be seen, felt or heard in a concrete sense - it works better when you trust it. Intuition and your faith in it are closely tied together. You must first trust your intuition before you see the results of it in your life. So often, we want guarantees or tangible evidence before we trust. Believe me, once you start incorporating your intuition into your business and personal life, you'll never go back! It's one of the most valuable skills in an entrepreneur's tool kit. We all have it, and many of us even hear its message, and still we dismiss it. How many times have you thought, "Something kept telling me that was the wrong decision to make. But I made it anyway because intellectually it made sense."

The Dirty Little Secret of Wildly Successful Entrepreneurs

by Doug Hudiburg

In my experience, it is not hard to convince business owners and managers to focus on marketing, what ∗is∗ hard is convincing them to do first things first. Most people want to jump right into the promotional elements of marketing, such as advertising and sales, before they have done the hard work of building a solid marketing foundation.

YOUR MARKETING SYSTEM IS LIKE A BUILDING

When people look at a building, what they see from the outside is mostly just aesthetic covering. They see walls, windows, ceilings and floors. These external attributes comprise the sum total of the experience most people have with that building. The outer skin, if you will, IS the building to the vast majority of people who interact with it.

But stop to think about what makes a building truly functional.

A building has a foundation, plumbing, electricity, etc. Without these "invisible" elements the building would be of little use to anyone. The same holds true for marketing systems that are built on an unstable foundation.

Wildly successful entrepreneurs understand this principle and can apply it to their businesses and to their marketing systems.

I call it their "dirty little secret" not because the concept is inappropriate for young audiences :-) but because it means getting your hands dirty. You can't build a good foundation without getting a little dirt under your fingernails.

THE MANUAL LABOR OF BUILDING A MARKETING FOUNDATION

The work that makes marketing programs effective and profitable is the grunt work of marketing. It is the marketing equivalent of digging foundations, pounding in re-bar, and welding girders. When it comes right down to it, many marketers just don't have the stomach for it. They want to avoid the dirty work and move quickly to the glamour and glory of promotion.

I have created a conceptual model of the optimum marketing infrastructure. I'd like to share it with you here, because it helps to illustrate the idea that I am putting forth.

The efficiency of each layer is dependent upon the preceding layer. In other words, without a strong layer #1 (business foundation), it is impossible to have an effective layer #2, #3, or #4 because you will be so plagued with business problems and breakdowns, that your marketing efforts will go largely unheeded.

If any one of these elements is not functioning correctly it can completely wipe out any promotional marketing efforts that you undertake. For instance, you can write an ad that pulls like crazy and has the phone ringing off the hook, but if you staff your order desk with a rude, surly, ex drill sergeant... well, there is a breakdown in your system.

I'm not going to delve into each of the 4 layers in this article, but I would like to touch on the elements required for strength i...

How To Create Niche Ideas, Products, And Services!

"Niches are like bathrooms; You never notice one until you need it!" - Roy Primm (The Niche Man)

What's the best way to create wealth today? Answer: To create a powerful product or service niche. It's the last frontier for the little guy.

Notice I didn't say find a niche, or buy a niche. I said to create your own product or service niche from scratch. That's the secret wealth key you've been searching for.

Relax, it's easier than you think when you know how, I've created dozens myself. I got C's and D's in high school, if I can do it anyone can.

The great thing about creating your own product or service niche is you have no competition. That's how fortunes are made my friend.

You make 100% of the profits when you create what you sell ... That's when wealth comes. Make sense so far?

Please stop buying others ideas and products to sell and expect to get rich, it will never happen. Stop wasting your time and money. Following that advice alone can save tons of money. But keep reading ...

A niche you create is the one secret behind every successful product or service. Never forget that if you want to get rich and avoid wasting money.

I'll show you how to create niche after niche and be at the bank - before most people realize what happened. Could you stand that? Then keep reading...

If you already have a product or service: (hopefully created by you or the jokes on you ... you're only helping someone else get rich) I'll show you how to give it more "niche power," and turbo charge your sales. Overnight!

To make money you have to sell what people are buying ... Now!

And what are people buying? I'm glad you asked that question. People are buying unique niche products and services that no other business is offering. You need to create a cutting edge niche!

Here are 3 magic tips to creating your own niche. In the interest of time and space I'll give you 3 quick tips to creating your own money - making niche.

1. Be Niche- minded:

You've got to start thinking niche all the time. Look at successful products and services and try to find the niche that makes them successful, unique, or different from the rest.

Simply doing this can give you more insight than the majority of people who simply glance at them and walk by. Doing this will instantly put you above the average Joe.

2. Look at what your competitors are doing - or not doing:

There is an old Jewish proverb that says "If you want to get rich, do what others won't do. This saying has stood the test of time and is still true today.

"Remember you don't have to be 100% better than your competition to win: You just have to be 1% better at 100 things! That's do-able.

Look at your competitors, can you do some aspect faster? Can you charge less? Can you give more of something? Can you provide it on week-ends or holidays? Can you eliminate a negative or inconvenience for your customer that your competition is not doin...

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